Viral infection. This is the reason why Italy loses one of its five main draw players at Wimbledon. Elisabetta Cocciaretto is forced to skip the Championships before even being able to play them, and communicates the forfeit already on Friday, two days before the potential debut.
The player from the Marche, who had reached the semi-final in Birmingham and therefore seemed to be in good form from a tennis point of view, was supposed to face the Romanian qualifier Todoni’s hip. The Serbian enters the scoreboard Olga Danilovicwho as a lucky loser will play for the first time on the lawns of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, where he had already come close to qualifying in 2019.
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The Italian number 2 had already had to miss the last preparatory tournament for Wimbledon, namely the WTA 500 in Bad Homburg, where she was supposed to face the Greek Maria Saccari. It seemed like just a precautionary move, but it turned out to be a bigger problem that is blocking her in this situation.
Cocciaretto had reached the second round in 2022 and the third in 2023. Of the four remaining Italians, Jasmine Paolini aside (with the Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo, who is not a herbivore; if anything, with her the matches usually last a long time), all the others find themselves with a very tough draw. Martina Trevisan will have the USA Madison Keys (who had his worst Slam in this, but still achieved two quarters), Lucy Bronzetti the Canadian Leylah Fernandez (in the final at Eastbourne) e Sarah Errani the Czech Linda Noskova (number 26 in the seeding, but perhaps a little more accessible than the two mentioned).
